Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Missouri (BB-11), 1903-1922, Selected Views

USS Missouri, a 13,500 ton Maine class
battleship, was built at Newport News, Virginia. Commissioned
in December 1903, she initially served off the U.S. coast. On
13 April 1904, an accident in Missouri's
after twelve-inch gun turret took the lives of 36 of her crew.
Three others were awarded Medals of Honor for heroism during this
tragedy. Following repairs, the battleship operated in the
Mediterranean Sea, off the U.S. east coast and in the Caribbean.
In December 1907 to February 1909, she participated in
the cruise around the World of the "Great White Fleet".

Upon her return from that long voyage, Missouri
was modernized. Her operations after 1909 were generally
in the western Atlantic and Caribbean, but she made a training
cruise to Europe in 1914 and steamed through the Panama Canal
to the Pacific in 1915. During World War I, Missouri
served as a training ship in the Chesapeake Bay area. Her final
duties, in 1919, included four voyages to Europe to bring U.S.
servicemen home. USS Missouri was decommissioned in
September 1919 and sold for scrapping in January 1922.

This page features views of and on board USS Missouri,
selected from the more extensive coverage linked below.

Click on the small photograph to
prompt a larger view of the same image.

Photo #: NH 67619

USS Missouri (BB-11)

At dockside, circa 1903-08.
Note prisoner working party at left, guarded by Marines
and moving a handcart full of debris.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 77KB;
740 x 575 pixels

Photo #: NH 101511

USS Missouri (BB-11)

Photographed in 1909 by Brown & Shaffer.

Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 49KB;
740 x 455 pixels

Photo #: NH 73411

USS Missouri (BB-11)

Passing Cucaracha Slide while transiting the Panama Canal on
16 July 1915. View looks north, with dredges working in
the background.

Collection of J.W. Augustine, 1968.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 97KB;
740 x 525 pixels

Photo #: 19-N-13078

USS Missouri (BB-11)

Photographed circa 1918, flying a Rear Admiral's flag.
Note that some of her broadside guns have been removed
for wartime service in other ships.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection
in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 535
pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the
National Archives photographic
reproduction system.

Photo #: NH 82511

USS Missouri (BB-11)

Ship's officers pose on the quarterdeck with officers
from the Japanese Armored Cruiser Nisshin, at
Yokohama, Japan, 24 October 1908.Missouri was visiting Japan during the "Great
White Fleet"'s cruise around the World.
Photograph by A. Farsaride Co., Yokohama, Japan.